Bug 856254 (CVE-2013-6836) - MAINT: VUL-1: CVE-2013-6836: gnumeric: gnumeric: heap-based buffer overflow in ms_escher_get_data function
Summary: MAINT: VUL-1: CVE-2013-6836: gnumeric: gnumeric: heap-based buffer overflow ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2013-6836
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P4 - Low : Minor
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Assignee: Dominique Leuenberger
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Reported: 2013-12-19 09:34 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified: 2015-02-19 02:49 UTC (History)
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Description Victor Pereira 2013-12-19 09:34:24 UTC 
CVE-2013-6836

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ms_escher_get_data function in plugins/excel/ms-escher.c in GNOME Office Gnumeric before 1.12.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted xls file with a crafted length value.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-6836
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1044857
Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2013-12-19 23:00:18 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 2 Dominique Leuenberger 2014-01-13 21:43:53 UTC 
Patch backported to
openSUSE 12.2 (gnumeric 1.11.3)
openSUSE !2.3 (gnumeric 1.12.0)
openSUSE 13.1 (gnumeric 1.12.7)
Comment 3 Benjamin Brunner 2014-01-27 15:37:02 UTC 
Update released for openSUSE 12.2, 12.3 and 13.1. Resolved fixed.
Comment 4 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-01-27 16:04:57 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2014:0138-1: An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 856254
CVE References: CVE-2013-6836,CVE-2013-6838
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    gnumeric-1.12.7-2.5.3
openSUSE 12.3 (src):    gnumeric-1.12.0-2.4.3
openSUSE 12.2 (src):    gnumeric-1.11.3-2.5.2